OF THE

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

OF THE

STATE OF MISSOURI,

AT ITS

FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL SESSION,

HELD AT

Jefferson City, Mo., May 21st, 22d and 23d, 1901.

ST. LOUIS:
NIXON JONES PRINTING CO.

1901.

List of Members.

Constitution and By-Laws

Minutes of the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Medical Association

of Missouri..

President's Address...

Essays, Reports and Discussions:

Report of Committee on Progress of Surgery. J. D. Griffith......

Report of Committee on Progress of Surgery. Frank J. Lutz....

Report of Committee on Progress of Surgery. C. H. Wallace..

"The Treatment of Acute Insanities." John Punton...

Report of the Committee on Psychological Medicine.

Sexton

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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List of Officers-elect for 1901-02

Standing Committees...

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M. P.

The Epidemic of So-called "Small-pox." J. D. Brummall..

Obstruction of Bowels.

The Value of Venesection Followed by the Saline Injection, in Acute

Lobar Pneumonia. William Porter.....

123

Treatment of Pneumonia. C. P. Wainwright..

128

The Progress of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Walter B. Dorsett... 134

A Consideration of Some Methods of Treating Epilepsy. W. J.

Alexander...

145

Legal Sanitation, or Some Errors and Shortcomings of Attempted

Medical Legislation. John D. Seba.... ..

153

The Passage of the. Hall Medical Bill and the Lessons it Teaches.

Herman E. Pearse....

159

A Case of Disseminated Seborrheic Epithelioma. A. H. Ohmann-

Dumesnil.......

171

Report on Medical Education. Woodson Moss..

177

Suggestive Therapeutics, with Report of its Action in a Case. C. H.

Dixon....

191

Report on Progress in Pediatrics. W. S. Allee...

Recent Progress in Therapeutics. G. Howard Thompson........

Protozoal Life in the Blood of Man and Animals and Some of its

Evolutionary Phases in the Bodies of Suctorial Insects.

Overholser

M. P.

209

Rapid and Excessive Enlargement of the Spleen from Infection

with Pfeiffer's Bacilli. H. G. Hicks....

233

Report of a Case of Placenta Praevia Marginalis, with Infection of

OFFICERS FOR 1901-1902.

PRESIDENT.

J. D. GRIFFITH, Kansas City.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

R. E. YOUNG, Jefferson City.
JOHN C. WHALEY, Osceola.
R. M. FUNKHOUSER, St. Louis.
J. F. CAMPBELL, Callao.
G. W. VINEYARD, Jackson.

RECORDING SECRETARY.

B. C. HYDE, Kansas City.

ASSOCIATE RECORDING SECRETARY.

F. W. BURKE, Laclede.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

C. W. FASSETT, St. Joseph.

TREASURER.

J. FRANKLIN WELCH, Salisbury.